NASA’s Curiosity rover sends a beautiful postcard image from Mars.

• Launch Year – 2012.
• It is a part of Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission of NASA.
• It is the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars.
• Aim – To climb onto the layered deposit in the center of the Gale Crater to assess its possible origins.
• Gale crater, located just south of the Martian equator was formed by the impact of a large meteorite sometime between 3.5 and 3.8 billion years ago.
• Findings – Curiosity’s scientific tools found chemical and mineral evidence of past habitable environments on Mars.
• It continues to explore the rock record from a time when Mars could have been home to microbial life.

687 Earth days = One Mars year